I hope you'll enjoy reading "The True Singapore Girl's Story", even though my makeup experience is really short, and may seem a bit negative about lipsticks. hahaha, but there will be Part 2!
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I remember, it was back in 2006, when I first did part-time work, that I wanted to start putting on makeup. The big question in my head was, so where do I start? Where do I buy from? How do I know what are the basics I really need?
It was in that same period that mineral makeup started gushing into mainstream, and I saw an interview of the owner of Make Up Store. And that article answered my biggest questions, because it dawned on me that all I needed to do was go down to the store, walk in, ask the sales assistants for a makeover, and ask them to introduce me a basic set.
That I did. Basic, but expensive basic set I got.
To side-track first, it was actually a luxurious feeling, walking in to a boutique store, sitting under bright lights, in front of well-lit mirror, and have two people fussing over me.
Back to the first lipstick, and so, the sales assistants picked for me my first lipstick, in a colour I would call a sort of mauve pink.
That valley in the top of the lipstick was caused by me dipping the lip brush right into the lippie. haha. And I did it because this is what my mum does to all her lipsticks. Moreover, it never occurred to me that I would like to swipe the lipstick directly on my lips, as it would look too bold for me. I don't do this now, as I've learned the value of swiping lipstick straight on. I brush my lip brush on the back of the lipstick instead.
To side-track again, I have issues with almost every single Make Up Store product I got that day! If anyone is wondering why Make Up Store didn't take off like M.A.C, it's probably the bad quality of its products. But I will elaborate one by one should there ever be another chance to write stories.
It was so drying that despite putting lipbalm, which I bought from Make Up Store as well, I couldn't stop my lips chapping! I said in my old post, how good the Aroma Balm is at healing, but it doesn't works under the horrid, horrid Make Up Store Lipstick!
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I thought that this lipsticks has that same matte taupe undertone as a couple of others, so I swatched them together. But to my surprise, my other "similar" lipsticks are in fact all quite different!
Left to right: NYX Round Lipstick in Paris is a mauve lilac pink (lol, very complicated colour), Make Up Store in Poppy is a rose vale with a slight sheen, and Maybelline Colour Sensational in Crazy for Coffee is a reddish brown.
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All Make Up Store products price extremely similar to M.A.C, so this lipstick didn't come cheap. And the very notion of me using it only a few times, and finding it unusable, then having to chuck this at the back of my drawer really did made me so disappointed.I've always regretted spending a bomb on Make Up Store products.
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And so, that episode set me on a big search for the best lipbalm, and also on lipstick-hate and lipgloss-love.
(By now, I have indeed found the best lipbalm, but I still can't stop my obsession for lipbalms, but that's another story.)
And then, it's on to the other story about lipglosses, and the great search for a good lipgloss, starting with the L'oreal Glamshine. But really, that's another story altogether, and that's it.
That's pretty much it for my first lipstick and how it turned me off.
I rekindled my love with lipstick, but I feel that will be the Part 2 of this story. Do check out the rest the links I've inserted along the way for more stories! So thank you for your time, I will see you and my next post, and have a nice day! =D
How about you? What is your first lipstick? And did it turn you on or off?
Yours truly,
Jyoan
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